RadioRhizome Pipeline3, 2021.
Soundscape, Performance Art and Experimental Sound Installation, Utilizing radio transmitting systems in both digital and physical format to create large scale soundscapes in acers of land. This iteration of RadioRhizome is located in Honor The Earth Camp. This camp utilizes Cultural, Direct and Legal Actions to oppose the passing of Enbridge Pipeline 3 through Anishinaabe’s treaty lands and Mississippi Headwaters. This location is close to Palisade MN.
RadioRhizome works on creating a artistic platform through immersive sound experiments to facilitate contemplation, healing and self reflection for the visitors, water protectors and general public who pass through these lands.
We have designated a separate website for online streaming of the content on this topic on a verity of subjects.
You can listen to these pieces on RadioRhizome.org
Below is the latest iteration of RadioRhizome soundscape on October 30 2021. There has been multiple soundscapes throughout the 2020-21 with different themes.
Below is March 2021 Iteration of RadioRhizome with the theme of “What is Water To you?”
Video documentation of one of RadioRhizome's sepcial edition programs. In these special editions immersive sound experiences are created across the camp, by the Mississippi, on the public lands by the pipeline. The content is a combination of experimental music, sound pieces, spoken word performances, story telling and interviews to create soundscape for general public, visitors, water protectors and pipeline workers. This performance has been repeated in different iterations. This is an ongoing project.
The questions we are working on are the following and on each question there will be radio programs designated to those questions.
What is Water to You?
What is Land to You?
What is Life to You?
Can Water, Land and Life have rights that could contradict our economic and financial interests?
If you had historical, cultural, spiritual, emotional, ancestral and existential connection to something would that validate your efforts to preserve and protect it from others to bring possible harm to it?
As legal cases continue to play out, long standing grassroots resistance to the pipeline entered a new phase with public actions in multiple locations and dozens of arrests of peaceful water protectors. Native American Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) organizations have led the movement with groups like the Giniw Collective, Honor the Earth, Rise Coalition and Gitchi Gumi Scouts leading public actions along the construction route along with organizations including MN350 Action and Northfield Against Line 3. Joining this effort as artists we talked with tribal leaders active in the scene to implement our radio rhizome as a tool and platform to reflect the voices of the people and create sound projects that can help recirculate them as much as our platform allows. We thought how can we be the waveline upon which the water protectors’ voices could surf. We thought the best way is not to represent but to broadcast. We decided to be a platform both as an actual radio transmitting entity run by artists and a virtual web based sound project to extend these voices as far as we currently can.
